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Ford loses hyperlink battle
News Eastern Michigan District Court Judge Robert Cleland rejected claims that Ford's trademark was being violated by a hyperlink that pointed the domain name FuckedGeneralMotors.com at its own homepage. He dismissed the case on the basis that the...
[January 31, 2002, 13:42]
Date set for BT hyperlink patent case
News BT's court case against ISP Prodigy Communications over the hyperlink patent will begin on 11 February 2002 in New York. BT contacted Prodigy and 16 other ISPs, including America Online, in June 2000 asking them to buy a hyperlink licence.
[November 23, 2001, 13:55]
BT to press ahead on hyperlink case
News BT has insisted that it will not be put off by the bad publicity surrounding its attempts to claim that it owns the patent for the hyperlink. BT is suing US Internet Service Provider Prodigy Communications for unspecified damages, on the basis that...
[February 7, 2002, 16:50]
BT suffers blow in hyperlink patent case
News Before the case went to court, BT had contacted Prodigy and 16 other ISPs, including America Online, in June 2000 asking them to buy a hyperlink licence. BT suffered a blow in its bid to charge royalties for hyperlinks on Wednesday when the New...
[March 14, 2002, 16:57]
BT claims hyperlink patent ownership
News British Telecom believes it owns the US patent for the World Wide Web's hyperlink technology and has hired an intellectual property specialist to ensure it can commercialise the patent, in court if necessary.
[June 20, 2000, 9:51]
BT sues over hyperlink claim
News British Telecommunications (quote: BT) has taken a large US ISP to court over its patent for hyperlink technology. BT contacted Prodigy and 16 other ISPs, including America Online, in June asking them to buy a hyperlink licence.
[December 18, 2000, 12:41]
Early ruling close in BT hyperlink case
News BT's contentious claim that it owns the rights to the hyperlink is nearing a crucial stage in its journey through the US legal process. BT is claiming that a patent request it filed in 1976, and was granted in 1989, gives it ownership of the...
[March 11, 2002, 14:10]
BT faces more shame in hyperlink row, say experts
News British Telecom believes it owns a 14 year US patent for the World Wide Web's hyperlink technology and has hired an intellectual property specialist to ensure it can commercialise the patent, in court if necessary.
[June 20, 2000, 11:50]
BT loses hyperlink patent case
News BT had contacted Prodigy and 16 other ISPs, including America Online, in June 2000, asking them to buy a hyperlink licence -- and when they refused, the telco pursued Prodigy as a test case. The hyperlink patent -- properly known as the Sargent...
[August 23, 2002, 10:23]
BT faces more shame in hyperlink row, say experts
Talkback How can BT own a patent on Hyperlinks when (if true) the discovery was made by a government employee as part of a nationalised postal service. All rights should revert to the Crown.
[November 24, 2004, 1:34]
BT's hyperlink? Don't believe the hypertext
News BT's attempt to claim a patent on a hyperlink is just one of many bits of nostalgia which the corporation is trying to get credit for inventing. In fact, hypertext -- in the sense of texts linked together by context, rather than as linear narrative...
[June 20, 2000, 13:37]
BT on hyperlinks: Show me the money
News A day after it was announced that British Telecommunications (BT) would pursue its claim of ownership over the Internet's hyperlink technology, ZDNet has been inundated with mail questioning the telco's motives.
[June 21, 2000, 11:09]
Linux gurus congratulate BT on patent nonsense
News A consortium of European Linux companies has congratulated BT for attempting to patent hyperlink technology in an open letter published today. We are impressed to learn that your company patented the principle of the hyperlink in the mid-70s when...
[June 22, 2000, 10:35]
Add a Return e-Mail Address Link to a Message
White Papers The user can include a hyperlink to a return e-mail address, such as mailto: someone@example.com, in a custom signature that one creates. A message recipient can click the return e-mail hyperlink to open a new message that is already addressed to...
[February 15, 2008, 0:02]
News Burst: BT says show me the money
News A day after it was announced that BT would pursue its claim of ownership over the Internet's hyperlink technology, ZDNet has been inundated with mail questioning the telco's motives. BT's attempt to claim a patent on a hyperlink is just one of many...
[June 21, 2000, 10:45]
Do what's right: AltaVista condemns BT patent claim
News British Telecommunications may believe it owns the rights to the hyperlink technology that connects billions of pages all across the Internet, but other Net heavyweights think it should be working for the Internet rather than trying to up its own...
[June 22, 2000, 10:51]
Bogus report boosts Internet stock
News Finance user identified as "staceylTN" posted a hyperlink apparently directed to the Web site of the Bloomberg financial news service, along with the note, "BUYOUT NEWS! At the other end of the hyperlink, readers found a page that duplicated the...
[April 8, 1999, 9:09]
World Engish Thesaurus Classic Edition
Downloads Enhancement of multi-word selection combined with hyperlink features for faster word vocabulary lookup. Features a color selection customization to suit your needs.e.g.text, definition, highlight, hyperlink) Features also a navigational key button...
[May 16, 2006, 8:00]
World English Dictionary CLite Edition
Downloads Enhancement of multi-word selection combined with hyperlink features for faster word-definition lookup.Double tapping support for word selection/highlight. Features a color selection customization to suit your needs.e.g.text, definition, highlight...
[August 12, 2004, 8:00]
Warning as rogue Facebook apps steal log-in data
News He installed the app and his friends were spammed immediately with a bogus notification 'Profile_name has sent you a message', with a hyperlink to the phishing site. Ferguson recommends that internet users check the URL displayed in the browser...
[August 20, 2009, 9:47]
